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Agenda for the 12th December 2019

 
 
Last time out…

Last time out…

Enterprise AI & Blockchain

Alan Pelze-Sharpe will be joining us and he’ll be focusing primarily on AI, with a smattering of Blockchain.

  • Why do so many AI projects fail? They don’t have to.

  • AI projects are not traditional IT projects.

  • Machine learning promising big changes to knowledge management.

  • Machine learning applied to search, will it actually help?

  • Ethics of deep-learning and bias in AI.

We’ll talk about the projects using blockchain too. Taking blockchain out of the cryptocurrency world and into the enterprise. Alan will busting myths about how hard blockchain projects are to get running.

Bring your questions, challenges, and ideas about any of these areas.

Agenda:

  • Opening round

  • MITRE Intranet homepage update (Krista)

  • AI in projects (Alan)

  • Lunch

  • Blockchain in enterprise (Alan)

  • So What? People care about what’s important to them (Charles)

  • Closing round

 

 

Alan Pelze-Sharpe

Alan has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, working with a wide variety of end-user organizations like FedEx, The Mayo Clinic & Allstate and vendors from Oracle and IBM to startups around the world.

He was formerly a Partner at The Real Story Group, Consulting Director at Indian Services firm Wipro, Research Director at 451 and VP for North America at industry analyst firm Ovum. He is regularly quoted in the press and the author of the Amazon bestselling book ‘Practical Artificial Intelligence”.

Alan’s LinkedIn


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Jon Lewis

I’m available to you if you want to speak about the group or you just want to get to know me better.

Things I love hearing about:

  • projects or ideas you’d like to share at a group meeting

  • offers to host 👍

  • nominations for an additional (wonderful) person to join the group

Things I love talking about:

  • Future of work topics

  • Decentralised organisations

  • Personal growth

  • Leadership

  • Conscious capitalism

You can read some of my articles on LinkedIn, call me on +44 (0) 7891 000769 or use email.